ECONOMIC JUSTICE $2,242,500

NATIONAL PROGRAMS

Applied Research Center (ARC): $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to advance racial justice and equity through research, policy analysis, and journalism.

Center for Community Change (CCC): $50,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing technical assistance and training to low-wage workers and immigrant grassroots organizations. (Second installment of a $125,000 grant)

Center for Community Change: $20,000For general support of this organization, which works to provide technical assistance and training to grassroots organizations working on jobs, welfare reform and public housing for low-income families.

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote policies to improve the economic security of low-income families with children.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP): $50,000 For general support of this organization, which works to reduce poverty in the United States through improvements in federal, state, and local policies and programs; development of reforms in federal, state, and local tax and budget policies; and more effective operation of low-income programs.

Echoing Green (EG): $20,000 For its NOLA Initiative which is using the power of social entrepreneurship to help rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): $62,500 For general support of this organization, which works to ensure that the Food Stamp Program and key child nutrition programs better serve low-income families.

National Women's Law Center (NWLC): $40,000 For its Project to Strengthen the Safety Net, which ensures that low-income women and their families, both nationally and in the District of Columbia, receive the help they need to escape poverty. (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant).

The Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR): $50,000 For general support of this organization, which works with poor and low-income mothers who are struggling with the intersecting issues of economic marginality, substance abuse, access to family-oriented treatment, and the criminal justice system.

USAction Education Fund (USAEF): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which provides information, training, technical assistance and research to state, regional and national organizations promoting social, racial, economic and environmental justice. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant).

REGIONAL PROGRAMS

A. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

PUBLIC POLICY

Campaign for Youth Justice (CYJ): $25,000 For its Justice 4 DC Youth project's work to improve the District’s juvenile justice system.

Capital Area Asset Building Corporation (CAAB): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works to provide low- to moderate-income individuals in DC with opportunities to improve their financial management skills, increase their savings, and build wealth

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP): $100,000 For a) it’s D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI), a project that analyzes budget, tax, and programmatic issues affecting low-and moderate-income District families and individuals, for use by policymakers, advocates, and the media ($75,000); and b) its DC Anti-Poverty Campaign, which will work to raise awareness of poverty issues and highlight the need for comprehensive solutions in the District of Columbia ($25,000).

DC Action for Children (DC ACT): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which provides policy analysis, research and community education on issues affecting children, youth, and families in the District of Columbia.

DC Jobs With Justice: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which works to bring together labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations to build power for working families in Washington, DC.

DC Appleseed: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which organizes volunteers, including attorneys and other experts, to work in teams to analyze and develop solutions to problems facing the city.

DC Employment Justice Center (EJC): $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to secure, protect, and promote workplace justice for low-income workers in the DC metropolitan area. (Second installment of a two-year, $70,000 grant)

Environmental Leadership Program (ELP): $20,000 For its project to enable two leaders from the District of Columbia to participate in its Mid-Atlantic Regional Network, which will bring together a diverse cohort of emerging leaders from Maryland, Virginia, and DC in order develop their capacity to have a unique and substantial impact on regional environmental issues.

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): $40,000 For its DC Hunger Solutions project, which focuses on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the District.

Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (WLCH): $60,000 For (a) general support of this organization, which seeks to provide legal representation to, and advocacy on behalf of, people struggling with homelessness and poverty in the District of Columbia ($40,000); and (b) its Fair Budget Coalition, which brings together community members, service providers, and faith organizations to collaboratively and strategically advance a public policy agenda that responds compassionately and effectively to the needs of the poor in DC ($20,000).

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG): $10,000 For its Washington AIDS Partnership, which addresses DC’s HIV/AIDS epidemic through a variety of strategies that focus on preventing new infections and improving the regional system of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and care.

Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW): $70,000 For (a) its DC Workforce Development Project, which seeks to improve workforce development and income support infrastructure in the District of Columbia so that it better responds to the needs of unemployed and under-employed job-seekers ($50,000); and (b) its DC Women’s Agenda, which works to advance an agenda to promote the health and well-being of the District’s women and girls ($20,000).

FAMILY INCOME

Academy of Hope (AoH): $35,000 For (a) general support of this organization, which works to break the cycle of poverty and create a community of hope and opportunity by providing high quality education and job skills training to low-income and at-risk adults in the District ($25,000); and (b) to launch a public education campaign linking adult education to K-12 education reform efforts ($10,000).

Bread for the City (BFC): $10,000 For a planning grant for its Pre-Employment Program, which seeks to enhance the lives of unemployed and underemployed individuals by providing a continuum of life management and job readiness training services.

Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (CFNCR): $15,000 For its Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative, which invests in strategies to help low-income adults in the Metro DC area gain the skills they need to advance into sustainable employment.

Jobs for Homeless People (JHP): $20,000 For its DC program, which works to help homeless individuals in the District of Columbia transform their lives by obtaining meaningful employment and permanent housing.

Neighbors’ Consejo (NC): $5,000 For emergency financial support to enable this organization to provide food, clothing and medical help to those displaced by the Mt. Pleasant fire.

Southeast Ministry (SEM): $20,000 For general support of this organization, which provides education, job readiness training, and job placement services to residents of Wards 6-8.

STRIVE DC, Inc.: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which trains, places, and provides support to chronically unemployed men and women in the DC area.

YWCA National Capital Area (YWCA): $20,000 For its Washington Area Women in the Trades program, which trains low-income women for non-traditional, high wage occupations in construction and other industries.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Asian American LEAD (AALEAD): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which offers tutoring, after-school mentoring, and family support programs to more than 250 low-income children and families in the District of Columbia. (Second installment of a two-year, $60,000 grant)

The Brookings Institution: $5,900 For its Greater Washington's Improving Youth Employment Services in Washington, DC project, which will craft a report and blueprint for action to expand and improve existing youth employment services in the District of Columbia.

DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation: $60,000 For (a) its Communications and Government Relations Plan, which will create sophisticated, strategic avenues for messaging, outreach, and information-sharing for CYITC and Out-of-School Time (OST) stakeholders across the District and the nation ($30,000); and (b) its Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, a year-round, comprehensive academic and pregnancy-prevention program at the Arts and Technology Academy Public Charter School (ATA) in Ward 7 ($30,000).

Heads Up: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to provide children from low-income neighborhoods with the academic skills and learning opportunities they need to succeed. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant)

Life Pieces to Masterpieces: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which provides academic support, art instruction, leadership development activities, and mentoring to boys and young men living in low-income and public housing east of the Anacostia river.

Martha's Table: $30,000 For its Bridge and Teen Programs, which provide tutorial, recreational, and other learning programming during the school year and summer for at-risk youth in the Shaw and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care: $30,000 For its Teen Program, which provides year-round programmatic and case management services to teens (ages 13-21 years), most of whom receive their primary health care at Mary’s Center.

Metro TeenAIDS (MTA): $80,100 a) For general support of this organization, which seeks to prevent the spread of HIV infection among youth in Washington, DC. (First installment of a two-year, $80,000 grant) b) For its DC Alliance of Youth Advocates (DCAYA) project, which works to ensure the availability of policies, programs, and practices within DC that promote and propel youth into productive and healthy adulthood ($40,100).

Planned Parenthood Metro Washington (PPMW): $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive, affordable, and confidential family planning and reproductive health services to low-income, at-risk teens, women, and men in the metropolitan Washington area.

Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays of the Metropolitan Washington: $1,000 For its 2008 LGBTQ Youth in Care Conference, a two-day event designed to assist government and non-government agencies with educating staff who provide direct care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

Project Northstar: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides tutoring and mentoring for homeless and at-risk-of-being-homeless children in grades 1-12.

The Urban Alliance Foundation, Inc. (UA): $40,000 For general support of this organization, whose mission is to train high school students for employment through work skills development, life skills enrichment, and education planning preparation.

Young Women’s Project (YWP): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which builds and supports DC teen women and girl leaders so that they can improve their lives and transform their communities.

HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT

Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ): $40,000 For its EMPOWER DC project, which seeks to enhance and improve self-advocacy efforts to improve the quality of life of low- and moderate-income people in the District.

Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to preserve affordable housing for low and moderate-income District residents, and to revitalize distressed neighborhoods through its training, capacity-building, public education, and communications components. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant)

Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC): $40,000 For general support of this organization, which works to create and preserve racial and economic equity in the District of Columbia.

FAMILY SUPPORT

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc. (AJE): $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to empower parents to address injustices in the delivery of services to meet special education needs.

Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which works to ensure that every foster and adoptive parent serving DC children is provided the best resources and assistance.

Healthy Babies Project, Inc. (HBP): $35,000 For its Teen Parent Empowerment Program, which provides services and resources to teen parents in Wards 5-8 to enable them to become supportive and responsible parents.

Perry School Community Services Center, Inc.: $30,000< For general support of this organization, which seeks to address issues of chronic poverty in the Northwest One area of Washington, DC./p>

Year Up Metro DC: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which provides low-income young adults (ages 18-24) with a combination of hands-on skill development, college credits, and corporate apprenticeships to place them on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency.

JEWISH ACTIVISM AND PHILANTHROPY

AVODAH: $20,000 For its DC program, which delivers critically-needed services to people in poverty while deepening the commitment of young Jewish adults to social activism as a central expression of their core values.

Jewish Funds for Justice: $10,000 For a Washington, DC program expansion planning grant.

Jews United for Justice: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which organizes a visible Jewish presence and takes action for economic and social justice in the Washington, DC area.

OTHER PROGRAMS

Fair Chance: $15,000 For general support of this organization, which works to strengthen the nonprofit sector by providing community-based nonprofit leaders in DC with technical assistance on organizational development issues.

B. MARYLAND

Advocates for Children and Youth: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the interests of Maryland’s children and families through the effective use of research, policy development, community outreach, media relations and government relations.

CASA de Maryland: $30,000 For its Community Organizing and Political Action (COPA) Department, which organizes low-income Latino and immigrant workers to effect positive policy changes.

Catholic Charities: $28,000 For its Maryland Alliance for the Poor project to hire a part-time communications outreach consultant who will create and promote a public education campaign to establish a poverty reduction target for the state.

Food Research and Action Center: $35,000 For its Maryland Hunger Solutions project, which will focus on increasing the use of federal nutrition resources in the state.

Job Opportunities Task Force: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which works to promote and develop policies and programs that increase the skills, job opportunities, and incomes of low-skill, low-income workers and job seekers in Maryland.

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations: $75,000 For (a) its Maryland Budget & Tax Policy Institute, which provides accessible research and analysis of state budget and tax policies ($50,000); and (b) its Advocacy Leaders Program, a year-long program to strengthen the knowledge and policy skills of nonprofit leaders ($25,000).

Progressive Maryland Education Fund: $20,000 For its Progressive Summit, a one-day conference that will bring together organizations and activists to network, strategize, and share best practices for engaging the public on various progressive issues concerning Marylanders.

C. VIRGINIA

The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, Inc.: $15,000 For its Initiative to Oppose Policies Detrimental to Virginia Nonprofits project, which will work to analyze state and local policies that would be detrimental to nonprofits and the people they serve.

Tenants and Workers United: $30,000 For its New Virginians Program, which will work to move legal permanent residents on a path to citizenship and full community engagement.

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy: $75,000 For (a) general support for this organization, an interfaith partnership focused on social and economic justice issues ($25,000); and (b) its Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Policy, which analyzes how policy, budget and tax proposals will affect low-income families and communities ($50,000).

Virginia Organizing Project: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which provides policy analysis, training and technical assistance to low-income individuals and organizations around the state working for economic justice.

Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC): $25,000 For its project, the Virginia Partnership to Encourage Responsible Lending, which seeks to end predatory lending practices that further impede low-income individuals’ and families’ ability to achieve economic security.

Voices for Virginia’s Children: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which is a statewide multi-issue organization working to improve policies and practices that affect children, youth, and families.